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There could be more plain speaking and less legal jargon, “being less stuffy”, as Taumaunu says.
It’s a vast cry from an offender standing in a dock with just a Corrections officer for company.
Judge Taumaunu calls it an all-encompassing approach, learned in part from the variety of ‘’specialist’’ courts around the country and from the reports over three and a half decades calling for reform of the system.
Those courts include the Youth Court, Young Adults, Special Circumstances, Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment, Rangatahi and Pasifika whose approach is called a wrap-around. All the necessary services are in court to tackle the problems. ....

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